I don't know if Kramer is a republican but republican governor Pete Wilson (1991-1999) appointed him in December 1996. I have also heard that Kramer is supposedly a Catholic. As a Catholic myself, I would have either decided the case in the opposite or recused myself. If he is a Catholic he is a lost Catholic in my opinion.
I wonder if there is such a think as a CINO? Catholic in name only. (ala RINO)
Actually religion would have nothing to do with this. The law alone is dead agains what this judge did. I think a little digging will reveal this judge to be an adherent to the ABA model divorce code which has included homosexual marriage.